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World Championships: Rhiannan Iffland Wins Women’s High Diving; American Maya Kelly in Bronze Rhiannan Iffland of Australia won the women’s high diving gold medal on Saturday at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. Bronze went to American Maya Kelly, the first American female high div...

The opening of the world's first High Diving Stadium took place this week in Zhao Qing, China. The new facility features a permanent 27-meter high diving tower and the opening was kicked off with a ceremony featuring some of the world's best divers, including reigning FINA World Champion Gary Hunt. ...

Canadian Molly Carlson is Reaching New Heights, On Diving and Online Platforms The first time Molly Carlson watched one of her videos on TikTok go certifiably viral, the content of it surprised her. It wasn’t a well-executed dive. It wasn’t a life milestone or a swimsuit haul that took off. It wasn’...

World Championships: American High Diver James Lichtenstein Wins Gold American James Lichtenstein was crowned the world champion in the men’s high diving event at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, sealing it with a sensational final dive. Second place went to Spain’s Carlos Gimeno in the 27-met...

The 2019 World Championships in Gwanju, South Korea will be the fourth World Championships to include high diving events for both men and women. Traditionally, high diving involves a cliff or platform suspended over a calm, natural body of water that the divers will leap off of and land in the water...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor.  Rhiannan Iffland, the most decorated woman in high diving history, defended her world championship title this morning, July 23, 2019 in an extremely close competition. Despite her accolades, the Australian diver did not command the competition like one m...

FINA will return to the same thorny issue of a bolt-on diet for aquatic sports at the Olympic Games in its lobbying of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ahead of the Paris 2024 Games. According to sources close to the top table of the global governance of swimming, diving, synchro and water ...

Orlando Duque is every bit the archetypal legend of his sport, for two decades having been at the very top of high diving. Now 42, he is preparing for yet another season in the Red Bull Cliff Diving Series, and ahead of the season start on June 24in Inis Mór, Ireland, he gives advice to his younger ...

DOHA - High Diving has been added as the sixth FINA Aquatic Discipline at the FINA Extraordinary Congress in Doha, Qatar today. The sport, which FINA has tested and exhibitioned since first crowning high diving world champions at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, has already completed a suc...

36 athletes (23 men and 13 women), representing 17 nations, are ready to compete in the fourth edition of the FINA High Diving World Cup, taking place in Abu Dhabi (UAE) on April 28-29, 2017. It is the second consecutive time this competition is visiting the capital of the United Arab Emirates, afte...

In early April, FINA made a proposal to the International Olympic Committee to add a selection of new events for Tokyo. An IOC meeting will be held on June 9 in Lausanne to discuss the changes and additions; the results should be announced a few days later. For swimming, the proposed events include ...

Gary Hunt (GBR) and Rhiannan Iffland (AUS) were the winners of the 2019 edition of the FINA High Diving World Cup, organised in Zhaoqing (CHN) on May 25-26. This was the fourth consecutive title for the British star in this event, while the Australian ace revalidated her 2018 crown. Hunt concluded h...

At the 4th FINA High Diving World Cup in Abu Dhabi April 28-29, FINA executive director Cornel Marculescu announced that the Federation has put in a request to the IOC to include High Diving at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. “This is an extreme sport and will certainly bring an added value to the Oly...

Gary Hunt (GBR) among men and Adriana Jimenez (MEX) in the women’s field were the winners of the 4th FINA High Diving World Cup, staged in Abu Dhabi (UAE) on April 28-29, 2017. The British star concluded the two-day competition, with a total of 443.40 after the four dives included in the programme, ...